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  • Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra

    Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11

    by Andrea Schlosser, Stefan Baums, Richard Salomon, Ingo Strauch ...
    Series series Gandharan Buddhist Texts
    The Gandhāran birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of nineteen scrolls discovered at the end of the twentieth century and named after their findspot in northwestern Pakistan. The manuscripts, written in the ... Read more

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  • Inside America's Opioid Crisis

    12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War

    by Richard J. Baum ...
    Every component of the drug fight needs to change, from the health care system to the justice system, from Homeland security to Congress. American lives depend on it.The country has been buffeted by four deadly overlapping waves of the opioid crisis, starting with prescription painkillers followed by heroin, fentanyl, and now dangerous drug combinations of opioids with methamphetamine, cocaine, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • China Watcher

    Confessions of a Peking Tom

    by Richard Baum ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
    This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People’s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author’s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum’s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's Literature

    Volume 6

    by Kenneth Grahame, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards, Louisa May Alcott, Maria Edgeworth, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 6 - Big Book of Best Short Stories Specials
    This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Children's Literature For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Kenneth ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Stress Science

    Biology, Psychology, and Health

    Edited by Richard Contrada, PhD, Andrew Baum, PhD ...
    "[F]or those who are entering the field or who want to broaden their perspective, I believe that this Handbook is indispensible. More than just a contribution to the field, the Handbook may well become a classic.PsycCRITIQUESThis is an important book about the scientific study of stress and human adaptation. It brings together both empirical data and theoretical developments that address the ... Read more

    $158.99 USD

  • China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution

    Edited by Richard Baum ...
    With the death of Mao Tse-tung and the subsequent purge of the "Gang of Four," China's new pragmatic leaders have embarked on a crash program of national development known as the Four Modernizations, This program is geared to the primary objective of turning China into a major world economic and military power by the year 2000. In this book, the outgrowth of a major international conference on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Endoleaks and Endotension

    Current Consensus on Their Nature and Significance

    Edited by Frank J. Veith, Richard Baum ...
    Endoleaks and Endotension is an authoritative resource for vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists and cardiologists, vascular disease specialists, primary care physicians and internists, and students interested in endovascular aneurysm repair. It contains valuable guidelines from a widely respected team of international authorities on the subject. ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

  • Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China

    The Road to Tiananmen

    Edited by Richard Baum ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: China Under Mao
    The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in 1991, presents essays that explore the political and economic reform policies that emerged in post-Mao China under Deng Xiaoping. In general, they conclude that the advent of partial marketization and structural reform ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Behavior, Health, and Aging

    Edited by Stephen B. Manuck, Richard Jennings, Bruce Rabin, Andrew S. Baum ...
    Series series Perspectives on Behavioral Medicine Series
    A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas. This book addresses these issues with contributed chapters by the leading authorities in the field of behavioral medicine. It deals with health and healthcare needs of the elderly by considering basic changes that result from aging and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Cancer Clinical Trials

    A Critical Appraisal

    Edited by Hans Scheurlen, Richard Kay, Michael Baum ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The controlled clinical trial has become an essential part of the clinician's decision-making process. Clinical trials, however, still raise methodological problems that are important and at the same time controversial: subgroup analysis and interactions, meta-analy sis of similar trials, consideration of subjective clinical opinions and those of the public at large, assessment of quality of life, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

    Edited by Richard P. Baum ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The recent revolution in molecular biology offers exciting new opportunities for targeted radionuclide therapy. This up-to-date, comprehensive book, written by world-renowned experts, discusses the basic principles of radionuclide therapy, explores in detail the available treatments, explains the regulatory requirements, and examines likely future developments. The full range of clinical ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Theranostics, Gallium-68, and Other Radionuclides

    A Pathway to Personalized Diagnosis and Treatment

    Edited by Frank Rösch, Richard P. Baum ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is based on contributions presented at the 1st World Congress on Gallium-68 and Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy, which examined recent developments in theranostics – the emerging field of molecular targeting of vectors that can be used for both diagnosis and therapy, when modified accordingly. The focus of this book is on the rapidly developing research into and clinical ... Read more

    $152.99 USD